Stanley Curtis

Stanley Curtis has developed a multi-faceted career as trumpeter, teacher, composer and early-music performer. After studying at the University of Alabama, the Cleveland Institute of Music and in the Netherlands on a Fulbright Scholarship, he received his Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University in 2005. He has taught at George Mason University and served as Historic Trumpet Division chair of the National Trumpet Competition.Having retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C., he was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Colorado State University in 2018. In 2022 he became President of the Historic Brass Society. He is the principal trumpet of the Fort Collins Symphony. An album of his own compositions, entitledRefracted Light, was released in 2019 on the Arts Laureate label, and his latest album,Orbits of Infinity, was released in early 2022 on the Tōnsehen label. Stanley blogs on his own Trumpet Journey website.